I Really Love Miami, But I Don't

I Don't Particularly Like Showing Furniture On Pedestals, But For Whatever Reasons You Always Have To In Museums.

There Are Some Very Similar Moments In The Early Work Where The Focus Was On Drawing, Abstraction And Fragmentation. Then It Moved To The Development Of Ideas. Lately It Has Become What Architecture Should Be, Which Is More Fluid Organization. There Has Not Been So Much 'a Change' But 'a Development'.

When You Are Overworked And Exhausted, There Is A Sense Of Kind Of Delirium And That's Why I Think Architects Do All-nighters And They Kind Of Do Those Deadlines. For Four Days I Remember Doing Four Nights In One Row With No Sleep. I Mean Nobody, Unless You Are Crazy, Would Do That, But You Are Totally Focused On The Project.

They All Come Out From The Same Thing; All The Projects Are Connected Somehow.

I Miss Aspects Of Being In The Arab World - The Language - And There Is A Tranquility In These Cities With Great Rivers. Whether It's Cairo Or Baghdad, You Sit There And You Think, 'this River Has Flown Here For Thousands Of Years.' There Are Magical Moments In These Places.